Have you seen the giant water lilies growing at University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum? 😮 #WaterLily #Waterlilies #BotanicGarden #BotanicGardens #victoriacruziana #amazingnature #amazingplants #OxfordUni #OxfordUniversoty | University of Oxford

Check out this clever little plant at University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum ☘️ Watch the water lettuce (Pistia) (on the right) it has water-shedding properties, owing to microscopic hairs on its surface. The plant can absorb oil and has the potential to inspire solutions to oil spill clean-ups. 🎬Twitter | Dr Chris Thorogood (thorogoodchris1) #OxfordUni #OxfordUniversity #BotanicGarden #AmazingNature #AmazingPlants | University of Oxford

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Oxford botanic gardens aquatic plants. At the centre of the Garden’s most iconic glasshouse is the tropical water lily pond. It dates from 1851, when it was built to allow the Garden to grow the giant Amazonian waterlily (Victoria amazonica). We now grow the more manageable species Victoria cruziana which is very similar. Also growing in the pond is the beautiful day-blooming Nymphaea x daubenyana. This hybrid water lily was first propagated here in 1874. It was named in honour of Professor Daub

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